Visualizing the Official Voting Results of the 44th General Election

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Polling locations

In preparing for the general election, it was expected that finding locations for polling places would present major challenges. Many traditional polling places, such as community centres, churches and schools, would likely be unavailable owing to concerns about the potential spread of COVID-19 or because these locations were being used as vaccination or testing centres. Other locations, although available, would not have the space or infrastructure needed to meet physical distancing or other public health requirements.

As polling places would likely be fewer and farther apart, electors could face increased travel distances, accessibility issues and longer lineups. To mitigate these risks, returning officers considered all possible alternatives, including places not usually used for voting, and communicated with property owners and managers at regular intervals throughout 2020 and 2021 to confirm availability.

Compared with the 43rd general election, there were 3 percent fewer advance polling places and 7 percent fewer election day polling places. Overall, this reduction proved to be manageable; however, in some instances, the large number of polling stations resulted in bottlenecks and lineups.

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Voter turnout

In view of the pandemic, Elections Canada had prepared for a major change in the patterns of elector behaviour during the 44th general election. Electors not comfortable with voting in person at their polling place could instead vote by mail using a special ballot. While initial data collected in 2020 showed that as many as 5 million Canadians might do so the agency revised its estimate for the uptake of this voting method several times throughout the planning period as the pandemic situation changed.

While the actual number of electors who chose to vote by special ballot turned out to be much lower than initially planned for, more Canadians than ever before voted by special ballot from within their electoral district, either by mail or at a local office.